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The child adoption marketplace: Parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more …. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely … adoption cost differentials are determined by adoptive parent preferences for adoptive child characteristics. We administered a …
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Schooling Family, Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ability, since at least a portion of ability is transferred genetically to children. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276954
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Schooling, Family Background and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276955
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Adoption and diffusion of health information technology: The case of primary care clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288238
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Post-secondary attendance by parental income in the U.S. and Canada: What role for financial aid policy?
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance - 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291898
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On the demand for grandchildren: Tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
Most private giving between living generations takes the form of tied transfers, such as help with housing downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the demonstration...
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Families as roommates: Changes in US household size from 1850 to 2000
Salcedo, Alejandrina; Schoellman, Todd; Tertilt, Michèle - 2010
The size of the average American household has fallen dramatically - from six in 1850 to three in 2000. To explain this decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are more income elastic than public goods, as we...
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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
de Haan, Monique - 2008
This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325931
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Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance
Hotz, V. Joseph; Pantano, Juan - 2013
Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329046
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Eugenics of inequality: UK and US fatherhood premia across the earnings distribution, 1974-2010
Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2014
Fathers in many countries enjoy a wage premium as compared with childless men, but parenthood does not benefit all men equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have grown over time. Five waves of LIS data and...
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